What was in your school packed lunch when you were growing up?

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How did it compare to your child's packed lunch now?

I secretly love Billy bear and buy it sometimes just for me!
Dd moved out years ago.

Me....Corned beef sandwich or sandwich paste

Kiora juice

Penguin

Fruit? I can't remember

My daughter takes mainly
Roast beef croissant or tuna wrap (she's odd)
Fruit
Apple juice
Biscuit

brown salami roll
penguin
probably an apple,
this was 1977 senior school

Full of discontinued items, always warm and sweaty.

Cheese sandwich on Mother’s Pride white sliced
Cheese Snips (1980s version of Mini Cheddars)
Bandit chocolate covered wafer or Trio biscuit

Zero nutrional value.

No memory of drink - probably stopped off at the water fountain.

I didn't think you could still buy billy bear 😀

at primary we had school dinners, but when dm couldnt afford it, i was sent in with sandwiches, and i had to sit on a table on my own!

Cheese & Piccalilly sandwich or a trip to the local chippy - this was in the 70,s/early 80's when kids were allowed to leave school premises at lunchtime (local newsagent would even sell you a single fag for a few pennies) 😂

Cheese and Tomatoe sand which on white bread, frube, penguin/mini roll or Kit Kat and an orange.

A flask ( proper tartan one) of packet soup made up in the morning and a cheese and onion sandwich. That was it. Made it myself. Always starving at playtime so often ate My sandwich then and only had soup left for lunch. Always starving!
Was at primary from 1976 to 1982. Pack lunches only a thing in the later years. Only a handful of kids took them.
Was always jealous of the kids with a nice sandwich with the crusts cut off and wrapped in kitchen roll😁.

Grated cheese and marmite sandwich, a penguin, and an Eden Vale chocolate topped yoghurt, with a flask of Batchelors tomato soup. That was in the early/mid 60s. I was always jealous that my best friend had a hard boiled egg every day 😆

Mine:
Sandwich- paste (fish or chicken) or sandwich spread.
Apple or Banana
crisps
Chocolate biscuit - penguin, 54321, Kit Kat, wagon wheel
or sometimes home made cake.

DD’s
crackers and cheese
mini cucumber & carrot sticks
Hula hoops
Apple

Calvita and cucumber on white bread
Jam on white bread
Red cheddar on white bread
Corned beef on white bread...

A packet of dunnes stores own brand crisps and possibly a hazelnut flavour yoghurt, a fun sized bar of chocolate, a carrot and water.

I have packed three lunches tonight, all same things - a cinnamon and raisin bagel, an english muffin, small peppers/cucumber/carrots, an apple and a packet of breadsticks.

With water.

Sandwich -corned beef or beef spread wasn’t a fan of ham

penguin type biscuit

crips or mini cookies for break

can’t remember any fruit in there

or soup/tinned spaghetti/hoops in a thermos

or when my dad was in charge of lunch crusty bread, Brussels pate and a little tub of butter like you get in restaurant (makro) made the place stink of garlic

Whatever I made for myself.....can't actually remember my mother making anything for me🙄 I went through a phase of making up a full loaf of cheese sandwiches and freezing them when in secondary school so I just had to pick up a frozen pack in the morning and would defrost by lunchtime with some frozen lemon squash, slush by lunchtime😋

1980's school child early 1990's teen.

I was away at boarding school from age 11, so lunch and dinner were a choice of two options meat or veggie, plus veg/salad and a pudding . You either ate one of the options on offer or you went hungry.

Food at school then was mediocre, but you had no real choice . Looking back, lots of disordered eating at my all girls school.

The worst thing I had in mine was salmon paste sandwiches. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

Paste, wafer thin ham or cheese sandwich, packet crisps, penguin/club type biscuit, carton orange / apple juice. I moved on by choice to school dinners where I loved a sausage roll, chips and baked beans plus a hot chocolate brownie. I still like this! There would be much less processed and more fruit now.

Me- brown bread sand which with either cheese and cucumber with salad cream. Or cheese and small pickled onions chopped up.

digestive biscuits with butter. 2 sandwiches together.

wagon wheel or trio biscuit. Carton of 5 alive and packed of monster munch. Apple or tangerine.

kids-
homemade bread rolls with chicken and salad. Salad from garden. Chopped veg sticks, cashews, water, some fruit. Kit Kat or penguin.

OR
PASTA salad with artichokes, olives tomatoes etc.
veg sticks, nuts, Kit Kat or penguin.

OR
PASTA hot with pesto and chopped veg and cheese in a thermos.

School in 1960s-70s. In primary your lunch box was definitely an important accessory! There was usually a sandwich on white bread, crisps, an apple, maybe some cut up carrots, and a thermos. Don't think it would be much different now.

Ice cream van used to park outside our high school and would spend dinner money on 10 regal king-size 😲😂

A sandwich, some crisps, and some kind of biscuit/cake/occasionally a frube.

Not healthy. I survived. Everyone had the same then. If someone brought an apple it was a huge minority.

Omg! We used to leave school and get bacon baps! I forgot about that

I went to school in the 60s/early 70s and we didn't have packed lunches then, either school dinner as it was called or went home but if we went on a school trip I had packed lunch which was sandwiches and a Lyons individual fruit pie, my favourite was apricot which was like large mr Kipling pie but in its own box.

Born 1987. Everyday from primary school to GCSE year I took:
Cheese and marmite sandwich
Whatever choc biscuit bar was on offer (wagon wheel; penguin; club; very rarely a gold bar)
Mini cheddars or hula hoops
Satsuma

I hated penguins so in primary I swapped with my friend who always had Mini Rolls.

I never ate my lunch at secondary, though my mum insisted on making it everyday. Actually had a job by then, so I chucked it in the bin and bought myself a turkey burger and dairy milk bar every day lol.

Recently been diagnosed with a milk allergy so am finding it difficult to comprehend how many cheese sandwiches I've actually eaten in my life.